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Tom Paxton - Looking For The Moon (2002)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 24 Jan 2024 18:48:08

Looking for the Moon is the first new solo studio CD for adults since 1994 by one of the great folksingers and songwriters of this century, Tom Paxton. His fans in the music world were waiting: the CD was subsequently nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award in the “Best Contemporary Folk Album” category. In a career entering its fifth decade, Paxton has recorded over 40 albums and created a body of incisive, heartfelt and universally relevant songs that have been covered by artists ranging from Pete Seeger to Placido Domingo to Willie Nelson. “The Last Thing on My Mind,” “Ramblin’ Boy,” “Whose Garden Was This?,” “The Marvelous Toy” and “Bottle of Wine” are only a few of the Paxton compositions that have become modern folk and topical standards.

Maintaining a triple career as a songwriter/performer for both grown-ups and children and as a writer of children’s books, Paxton has linked the generations of the early ’60 Greenwich Village folk era and today’s videogame-hypnotized youngsters.

On Looking for the Moon, Paxton presents thirteen original songs emphasizing personal themes that reflect modern day life and the current cultural climate. Many compositions concern the inevitable but insidious march of progress and aging and their effect on average citizens. “The Chisholm Trail became the road to Disneyland,” rues Tom in his modern day cowboy song, “My Pony Knows the Way.” Small communities crumble beneath economic hard times in “Early Snow” and “My Oklahoma Lullaby.” Nature’s curative powers are given their due in “My River” and “Come Away with Me,” and the tides of love carry the tender “Me and a Couple of Angels,” “Easy Now, Easy,” and “Marry Me Again.” “Homebound Train” is a heartbreakingly poignant story of a ten-year-old boy coping with the death of his father.

An early version of the CD’s most topical song is a computer-age hit as the number one most downloaded song – for free – on the efolkmusic.com website – “The Bravest” is Tom’s tribute to the heroes of last year’s 9/11 terrorist attacks, the firemen who risked (and lost) their lives in their rescue efforts at the stricken World Trade Center. The song has subsequently been recognized as one of the most haunting reactions to the tragedy: “It’ll tear your soul apart,” wrote Jonathan Takiff in the Philadelphia Daily News.

Like Paxton’s last two “grown-up” solo records, Looking for the Moon was produced by veteran producer and musician Jim Rooney, who has also produced CDs for John Prine and Nanci Griffith, the latter of whom adds backing vocals to two tracks here. Anne Hills also adds beautiful soprano vocals behind Tom on five songs. Other supporting musicians include Al Perkins (previously of Emmylou Harris’s Nash Ramblers and the Flying Burrito Brothers) on Dobro, acoustic guitarist Mark Howard, who has backed Iris Dement, Nanci Griffith and John Hartford, pianist Mark Wasner, who has written hits for Vince Gill and Garth Brooks, and relative newcomer Tim Crouch, adding to the Nashville-recorded CD’s country tinges with his nimble mandolin and fiddle.

The great folk revival gave birth to a multitude of politically committed singers, but few maintain a high profile 40 years later. Tom Paxton, however, is different. Whether singing children's songs or protesting against social ills, he remains committed to a vision of a better world. While Looking for the Moon finds Paxton plowing the same fertile soil, he's become a subtler songwriter over the years, relying on natural imagery instead of the headlines. He also enjoys writing about the simple pleasures of life – a special someone, a quiet morning, and a sad memory – and doesn't fall into the same platitudes as a number of singer/songwriters. "Homebound Train" tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who travels to see his ailing father. As the train moves toward home, the boy has a vision of his father waving goodbye and telling him, "It's alright, son, I'm still here." When he arrives home, his father has already died. "Early Snow" is filled with simple, though elegant, descriptions. The darkening skies, westerly winds, and bitter cold also offer apt symbols of yet another small farming town that's seen better days. The album's arrangements are straightforward: acoustic guitar, joined by an occasional harmonica, mandolin, fiddle, and piano, provides spare, tasteful support to Paxton's vocals. While it's tempting to call Looking for the Moon "a mature effort," such a phrase sounds a bit sterile. Nonetheless, Looking for the Moon is a mature effort, a singer/songwriter album for those who have moved beyond broken relationships and identity issues. Fans will embrace it warmly.

Review by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Allmusic.com

Tom Paxton at Allmusic
Tom Paxton at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Looking for the Moon (4:28)
02. My Pony Knows the Way (3:29)
03. Me and a Couple of Angels (3:46)
04. Easy Now, Easy (2:43)
05. Homebound Train (4:25)
06. Early Snow (4:10)
07. My Oklahoma Lullaby (3:57)
08. My River (3:16)
09. Come Away With Me (3:55)
10. Marry Me Again (3:53)
11. The Same River Twice (4:40)
12. Life in the Key of C (4:08)
13. The Bravest (3:11)

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